Meaning

• A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

  "After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds."

• Something that has begun to develop.

  "breast buds"

• A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

  "In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds."

• (usually uncountable) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

  "Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?"

• A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

• (term of endearment) A pretty young girl.

Meaning

• To form buds.

  "The trees are finally starting to bud."

• To reproduce by splitting off buds.

  "Yeast reproduces by budding."

• To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

• To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

• To put forth as a bud.

• To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.